Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1891, Page 12

12 1 VT AT B A A A T THE OMAHA DAILY S A e HOW T0 ATTAIN OLD ACE. What Distinguished Octogenarians Have to | + Bay About it, | | TO YOUNG MEN, TIMELY ADVICE Neal Dow's Rules How to Heach Ighty—Cnssins M. Clay a Believer in#lenty of Sleep—Dr. Scott ty-One Years, [Copyright, 1891, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Wasnixaros, May 20.-Special Corre- spondence of Tur Bee: Within the past few years Washington has had a number of distingnished nonogenarians. George Ban- croft died when over ninety. The Millionaire Corcoran had almost reached his ninetieth birthday when he passed away, and one of the liveiiest old men in Washington today lives at tne white bouse, and he is known to everyone the father of Mrs. President Harrison. The Rev. Dr. Scott is now ninety- one years of age. He was born before Wash- Ington died, and he is today as firm on his legs as Prosident Harrison himself. Hois considerably taller than the president, has a broad, well-filied out chest, a bright eye, and 1s wonderfully well preserved mentally, I had a two hours’ chat with him in his room In the second story of the white house, the other day, ana I found him fuil of life and good fellowship. Heisa man of more than ordinary ability and is young enough to be in- terosted in the presentas well as in the past Btill his life has been a very hard one. He was for yoars a professor in o western col- loge, and ho preached at the same time that he taught. Much of his preaching was done away from the town in which his college was located, and ho would often rise before @aybreak or ride half the night to get back to his classes. He tells me that he continued to mature until he was sixty, and that he thinks be was in his prime a% this time. He be- lleves in laughing as much as possible in life, and says it was care that killed tho cat. He has not had any regular rule of diet or of exercise, and while he believes in temper- ance he would not advise young wen to bo too careful of what they eat, but he would v should worry as littlo as possi- v young, and get all they can out of life from day to day. THE HON. NEAL DOW ON LONGEVITY. There is no brighter mind in the country today than that of Neal Dow. He is more than eighty years of age, but he is in his prime physically and mentally, and he has written for mo the following articlo on longovity and how to obtain it. It is headed “A Long Life,” and roads: You wish to know what the secret is, if any, as to the mothod of reaching a long lifo, There ought not to be any secret about it, for the neceesary rules relating to it are so many, so plain, and so widely published to the world, that no intelligent poerson should be ignorant of thom. There is no other earthly good so precious as sound health, yet there is 1.0thing of which people ara so care- less and so prodigul, constantiy viclating in the most reckless manner, the plainest, sim- plest laws of life. i As to myself, T came of a strong stock. My ancestors, all of them, paternal and maternal, As far back as I know anything of thom, were tarmers and Quakers, leading & frugal, in- dustrious, active, temperance life, the blood of not even one of them poisoned by strong drink, The Friends, from the origin of the denomination, were careful to avoid t universal habit of their time, the use of alc holic liguors. This abstinence, together wit that other rule of life of theirs, to keep them. selves *‘unspotted from the world,” no doubt had much to do with tho fact, that, as a body of men and women they were more free from disease than other people of equal numbers, and attained to longer life. I have led an active life from carly youth, always abstaining as a matter of health and Christian duty from strong drink and tobac- co. Always avoiding any article of food from whicli I had once experienced an trouble; always careful not to as many people, when hungry, do, without thought. Many years ago I sus- ,}oaml that coffee did not agree with me. 'hough fond of it I took no more. I have never had reason to think tea in anv way in- urious and I take that, one cup of 1t morn- ng, noon and night.e Generally an early riser, i summer 5 o'clock, in the winter X with two hours before breakfast for morning papers and books; rarely kecping late hours, never engaged in any form of dissiption. In early life an athlete and a good swimmer, but never mdulging in these exercises to excess; never but once tosuch an extent as to oc- casion abnormal action of the heart. Never suffering from an anticipated evil; remembering that sufticient unto the day are the evils thereof; that people suffera great deal more from misfortunes that never come than from those which actually befall them. Trust in God is not only a Christian duty,but it tends to temper the ills of life and makes even the sharpest of them casierto bear. ‘The thought comes tosuch aman: Who knows but this is best! And so he comes to accept it as best, because of his belief that God rules and God knows. I have been always busy insome way; have always had somo leading object in life, which keeps me occupied in body and mind, 80 that time has never been eavy upon my hands. A love of books began with me early inlife, so that my pocket money, even in Doyhobd, almast Al of 1t, wenin ihay Givor. tion never to the expenditure even of a penny in sowing wild oats or in tho payment of harvest expenses often very heavy, and in later lifo the buying of books was my only extravagance, 1 am sure that my advice to young men, es- peoially 1f unasked, will be ‘much valued, butit is very cheap, and since you wish it 1 will say: Avoid strong drink in any form as rigorously as Jews and Mohammedgns avoid Fol’k. Never any good can possibly come rom it to any one, while it has been the direct aud indirect cause of the failure in life of millions of mon who had no fear of it, Avold tobacco as & matter very important to health and a clean, sweet life. The young man does not know that he who has the tobacco habit is nota free man; be is like the galley slave chained to the bench upon which he sits at his forced labor, Let the JounK man remember that it s ot impossi- lo for him who has the tobacco habit to be at some time, perhaps often, an insufferable nuisance to muny persons who are so unfor- tunate as to be in his company, casually or otherwise. Let him remember ihat to such & man it is also impossible, always and everywhere, to bo an honost, upright, polish- ed gontlemun, Somewhore' and porhaps often, ho will without thought, poison the air that others must breathe, wh\rh he has 0o more right to than to poison the water and food which they must drink and eat, or on the sly to take the purse from their pocket. One's purse isno more his right than his share of the pure atmosphere for respira- tion. The man with the tobacco habit has the moral sense so blunted and stupefied that he is nlwl{'.. unconsciously perhaps, in- vading the rights of others; if not uncon- sclously, then it is with uno care for others' rights. Let the young man remember that the tobacco habit is acquired by men when they are green and vealy; when once fast. sned upon-them they are in shackles ot iron that it is almost impossible to break., A Iriend of mine did this, aud said afterward for all the money in the Bank of England he would not n endure the horrors of that struggle. Let the young man remember that the way to fortune is to earn ana save the first thousand dollars. Honest fortune pomes in that way—earning aud saving. The babit of saving, of econowy, will be thor- oughly fixed w earning and saving the sum I pame. If he has a lm‘l“k“‘“{' uv:; larger sal: Save more, new & young :nn who n‘;l"l salary of $2,500 a year; he spont the wholo of it as he weat o, and aow, at the age of fifty years, he has saved aothi I knew lm)vi 0:: young r:lnwwth& troke of good ute, CHn & .ul:r.y. Up to that timo he had peen | wise chance to lay the foundation of a fortunc.’ Ho heeded my advice, as he afterward teld me, and today ho is' & man of tdependent fortune, as free now with his money for good objocts, ns he had boen careful and prudent. Ttall came by self-aenial, by saving and by investment of what he saved. Tho other man now gives his notes instead of cash in payment of shoo bills and grocers accounts; the other pays cash always for his needs, with hundreds for persons and objects worthy of help. Young w path vou will take—this or that; each leads to adifferent end, A healthy lifo and a long one must largely depend upon the comforts of one's sufround- ings. SufMicient food and suitable, suficient clothing adapted to one's needs; sufficiont and comfortable shelter—in a word, a good home, with all its attachments and surround- fugs adapted to one's wants and neods—is necessary to a healthy and long life. All this, nono of it, can oné have without money, and this comes to the great majority of peo- ple by alrnlnf. and the good of it comes by savinpg, Without that, wages go but a little way in promoting comfort. The anuual cost, loss and waste, direct and indirect, coming from the liquor trafiic in this country ia not ioss than twenty-two hun- dred million dollars annually, [t is safe to say that two-thirds of this enormous sum, viz : more than_fourteen hundred and fifty million dollars, is paid and_lost by the wage- earners of the country. So much withheld from the necessaries and comforts of life. Poorer houses aud fewer of them; less cloth- ing and poorer; insuficient and unsuitable food: less fuel and more suffering from cold ; more disense and less chance of recovery: more and speedier deaths amoug all those who furnish their share of the fourteen hun- dred and fifty millios s for drin They cannot spend th zes for whisky and’ beer and at the same time supply their families with comfortable and abundant food, fuel, clothing and suitable shelter from inclement skics, This answers vour question whether or mnot pro- hibition would i the average of life in the United States, That this prob- lom will be solved at some time in this coun- try I have no doubt. Our people will by and by wake up to the enormous folly, the sin, shame aud crime of giving sanction of law to asystem whereby 822,000,000 annual lost to the natfon, loaving nothing show for it but abounding poverty, e ism, wr , crimo and premature death 5 re are more than one hundred thousand lives in this country shortencd an- nually from five to twenty-five years each by the drink habit, the most of which would 1ill out their allotted time but for the drink trafic now established by law, Does anyone ask when this deliveranco will come! [ answer on that day when the n church shall arouse itself from its and prolonged lothargy, and take its share in the great warfare against the suloon now going on in this country; a strug- gle which Charles Buxton, member of the British parliament, decls to be a warfare between heaven and h u will L. Th wake up to its duty by and b; longer false to it. CASSIUS M. CLAY ON HOW TO KEEP YOUN The Hon. Cassius M. Clay of Kentuc another octogenarian who seems to be o dowed with porpotual youth, e writes ¢ corning longevity and how to secure itas follows WinrenaLy, Ky.—Dear Sir: upou long life is received. Some curious statistics average lifo of animal of maturity, Taking that age in man to ve twenty ho should live 100 yoars. The Jewish : “T'lio fathers havo eaten dren’s tectn are on and will be no Your letter aver that the is five times the age edge.” But fortunately fo 1. 1 atwribute my wencral good heal through life mostly to inheritance, to exercise and open air living. 1. As tomy daily habits of work and exer- cise, sleep and diet, 1 have followed generaily the Lutin apothegram, “Ne nimis.” (Naver t00 wch.) - Kxerciso is the normal law of all animal life, so moderate work is always healthful. T have never been an idler, sleep nine bours and could never do well on less. Of course the time required for sleep varios with constitutions and pursuits, My father never allowed children or the sick to be aroused and 1 followed the same rule. In diet I am satisfied with a few good dishes, 1a dot. ¢ think that o great variety at a sin- ~le meal favors health. A change of diet hevld be gradual, as 1 hold that the gastric *taccustom itself to changes of food, in dgiet, sieep, rest and- time and me great thinkers that every man shou ais own physcian. The lawyers and @ tors say that such practice gives fools for clients and patients,but I retort this is one of the cases where it is “folly to bo wise.” 8. Twould advise young imen having the above dicta in mind to be always comfortable Af thoy cau. I think the highest dovelopment ' of unimal life is in temperate climes and under favorable surroundings of food, clothing and shelter. Sudden changes of all sorts should be avoided. The noted Dr. Benjamin W, Dud- ley never wore an oyercost, and Shelim woro the same clothes winter and summer. But in this he went too far, for the other animals have to some extent winter and summer clothing as fur of winter is substituted by hair in summer, etc. I attribute the growing. baldness of our times to malpractice, N. P, Willis, the poet, was noted for his fine head of bair. e always bathed his head and hair in cold water. The natural oil of the skin gave vigor and gloss to s profuse locks. So I followed his practice, and my hair is almost as profuse now as in youth. 1 never use cos- meties, Dandruff is the outer cuticle of the scalp, reiuforced by the iuvisible perspira- tion, which hardens in theair; it is an indica- tion'of vigorous health. Quacks, in destroy- ing dandruff.kill the sells producing the hair, If a barber attempts to use cosmetics [ should say: “Shoot him upon tae spot.” Use only water, the hair brush and the fine-tooth comb. The teeth should be cleaned by water, wooden or quill tooth-picks and the hair tooth brush. In early youth I used fine flan- nel and silk under my linen, but when I put them off in the spring I had severe colds. So I have for long yesrs used nothing but linen, washing myself to the beit every day with cold water, and below the belt every fow* days. Ttis alsoa good plan to dip the feet m&) cold water at times after getung out ot be 4. T rise carly, at 6 now, and am never idle. Though my political views generally keep me in a minority, Istill take interest in public affairs, in agriculture and in scientific devel- opwent. I write on railroads (our masters), on moncy, Samoa, commerce, improved live stock, forestry, agriculture, prohibition, woman suffrage, nihilism, ete. I am engaged in but one permauent work, the second vol- umo of my “*Memonrs, o But Lam in no Bust about it as I may yot live tobe 100 yonrs old, 5. Do [ belleve in the use of spiritous liquors, tobacco, tea and cofieo! I favor the moderate use of liquors, tea and coffee, but opposo prophibition, which would wako a nation of sueaks, and which has been a po- tent factor in causing women to but on the beeeches viding astride of the war- horses of politics. I am with King Jame: Tobaccols filthy woed, Zht from holl brough tne scod; It fouls the mouth and solls the clothes, Aud makes a chimney of the nose. 6. Does marriage lead to long life! T think s0. It is the natural law. and the normallaws obeved favor loug life. But 1 want a mar- ringe of unity of vote of one interest in prop- erty and fame—the basis of home, of the fam- ily, tho ovum of the state, the eternal rock of Christianity and civilization, But what is the upshot of the woman suffrage rebellion acainst God and uatura? It sinks all these into darkness and chaos, the wreck of all that is good and glorious in human nature, with nothing left but the tattered rod flag, “Marriage the legul license of the perpetuation of the race.” 7. Between what years man may do his best montal work depends upon his indi- vidual longevity. Age gives advantage in work up to the time when the physical rowon fail. “Once a man and twice a child" s the etornal law. Great work has been done in early life, but not the best work. Alexander the Great and Napoleon were great generals, but not the greatest of wen, Keats and 'Coleridgo were great poets, but not the greatest poets, Prodigies are over one-sided. 1t took long years for Wash- ington, Jefferson and Lincoln to ripen into glorious manhood. So also a genial and acific spirit leads to long life, And the ives of judges, college professors and gen- erally men secure from the cares of money getting, are long, Let us trust that immortal aspirations founded on duty and the love of humanity, lengthen our years, Lot us live as though we were to die to- morTow, and also live as if we were never to die.—Cassius M. Clay, "RANK G, CARPENTER. ———— ooy industrious and pru- poor, though dent. I met him rn the street one day and ald: "Now save; now you bhave & good DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Best little Noue equal. Use them now, 1 il over made, Cure coustipation every time. ihave ever held. b-y g-o-s-h!” ceeded this time. They are in all sizes, in Sacks, Frocks and Cutaways. They are in plain, plaids, stripes, checks, mixtures, pepper and salt, &e. They are in brown, blue, black, gray, tan, steel, slate, gold and brown mixtures, &ec. They are suits many of which are worth fifteen eleven dollars, and not a single suit in the entire lot t They are made of all wool cassimeres, diagonal They are made of goods that will stand by a m They are cut in style, lined and trimmed in shape, and made just as well as suits sold for twice them are silk-faced]. at the uniform price of We were crowded with lookers found out that they had a bargain an $B7.50, BEE:y$UNDAY, MAY 24, 1801—SIXTEEN ts at seven dollars and a half which is now Our regular efstomers are so ace 'ordinury run to startle them, but we’ve suc youll hear: “That beats anything I ever saw.” exactly as good as the one John find about an eight dellar suit'for seven fifty. He pic fidentially to a salesman: PAGES: NN DA s 3o ONE EVERY FOUR MINUTES Our great sale of Men’s S , lookers became buyers, buyers became our best advertisements, beca d were not slow to tell of it. in progress promises to beat any sale we / ustomed to getting bargains of us that it takes something out of the” Around the tables set apart for this great sale, all day long “That’s good enough to wear anywhere.” “Say! Jim! that suit is just aid fifteen dollars for.” Once in a while some doubting fellow comes in expecting to ks up one worth fifteen dollars, examines it carefully, says con- “Thatain’t seven and a half, isit?” and when told that it is, about all he can say is: “We-e-l-1, - WwWEka'l" THINY ARE, dollars, the majority of them worth fourteen, thirteen, twelve, and hat can be matched under ten dollars in this country s, cheviots, tweeds, flannels, and silk and wool mixed cassimeres. an like a poor relation. the price [many of THE PRICE OF THEM. = ' We placed eighteen hundred of these suits on sale on separate tables last Wednesday morning, all in one lot, all * use they FOR MEMORIAL DAY To make it more interesting for the old soldier who defended his countr the sale for this week three hundred G. A. R. Suits, made of the ver or double breasted sack coats, made with eyelets for in These suits, like the old soldier, in the time of the late un Don’t wait; the sooner talk to you). NEBRAS y in the hour of her need, we will add to y best all wool indigo blue flannel, with either single terchangeable buttons [G. A. R. buttons being furnished free]. pleasantness, “They fit, and fit, and fit.” TAKE OUR ADVIGCE you get here, the better for you. (Why not look in our east show window and let the suits ECHOESFROM THE ANTE-ROOM. An Important Event in Masonic Affairs in New York, LAYING A CORNER-STONE FOR A HOME. The For:sters Welcome Their Chief— Further Details Regarding the ¥Fraterntl Mass Meeting — News of the Order. The Masons of New York celebrated in Utica, in that state, an event which marks an important epoch in the history of the craft— the beginning of the visible consummation of tho steadfast purpose of half a century. There were gathered there thousands of the craft from all parts of the state to witness the laying of the corner-stone of an asylum for indigent Masons, their widows and orphans. In the year 1810 the grand lodge of New York entered to a contract with the F'roe School to educate fifty childran, at a cost of $300 per annum, and this contract was con- tinued until 1819, and many orphans of de- ceased Masons derived great benofit from it. This most worthy charity came to an end in that year and was allowed to vemain dor- mant until 1842, when it w: again revived by a memorial drawn up by Grand Secretary James Herring asking the grand lodge to es- tablish a fund for the building of a hall and the founding of an asylumn for *vorthy, d cayed Masous, their ‘wyidows and orphans The first subscription of $1 was paid by Greenfield Pote, grand tiler. This first sub- scription was followed by others from time to time, until the memoriul was presentod to the grand lodge sigued by 100 brethren, and the amount subscribed was upward of £300, To gnote from the address of Grand Master Vroomau at the laying of the corner-stone: “The seed sown by that original charity fund of §00 was scattered broadcast throughout this grand jurisdiction, and none of it has, ever fallen on unfruitful ground. It has brought forth an huudred, aye, many hun- dred fold. Among other good things, it has brought forth in money $3,514,350.50, which has builded and “furnished a Masonic hall; paid debts; purchased thess broad and beau- tiful acres; placed in bank on the first of the present month $220,464.16, a sum more than sufficient to erect and equip this asylum, the corner-stone of which we huave just placed with loving hands and grateful hearts.” * At the ceremony of layiug the corner-stone of this grand institution addresses were de- livered by M. W. Frank R. Lawrence, past grand master, and Hon, Chauncey M. Depew. The adaress of the past grand master was a comprobunsive roview of the bistory of the craft in New York and the many vicissitudes through which it had passed until it finally emerged from the cloud of debt which had rested heavily upon it, and it became possible to devote the revenues of the craft to the charitable purposes for which they wore in- tendod, The oration of Mr. Depew was a Masonic gom couchied in the eloguent language which that modern Demosthenes has always at his command. A. A O.N. M. 8. Tangier temple held a session for work on Friday. The session opened at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and ocontinued until 8 p. m. Twenty-aine pilgrims were conducted across the burning sands, and wero received bo- neath the sheltoring dome of Tangier, where they wore declared trus sous of the desert, At the conclusion of the ceremony, tho nobles proceeded to the banquet roo . where thoir Iadies were in_waiting, and all sat down to a fonst fit for the gods. After diuuer speeches wore mado by & number of the nobles. Fratornal Mass Meeting. The committee in charge of arrange- ments for the fraternal mass moet- ing which will be held at Grand opera house next Friday night, report every- thing in good shape for a successful gather- ing. Bishop Newman, Dean Garduer, Rev. J. G. Tate and T, ¥, Melson of St. Louis, will speak on fraternal sociotios. Juies Lum- burd and the T. K. quartette will furnish a flue musical programme. Admission tickets may be obtained with- out charge from any mewmber of the societies, or from J. W. Carr, First National bank building, or Geovge Ker, Bee building. H ¥ 1" 3h Chief. Ranger ‘Cumming: retury Saunders, High Maedis Johnaon and ex-High Secrotar, patrick, all of Chicago, were in the city last weoek. 'A mass meoting of all the lodges of the order in the city was held at Metz' hall on South Thirteenth street,on Tuesduy night, at which the high chief ranger delivered an address upon the workings and benefits of theorder. He spoke for about two hours, his remarks bemg of a very interesting nature, Chief Cummings also exemplified the secret work of the order, assisted by the other high court officers. Each of the latter made short addresses and the meeting closed ut a late hour. This visit was the first made by the oficers of the bigh court and its effects have already been made manifest in arousing a new inter- estin the affairs of the order. New lodges of the order will be organized soon. There are three lodges now ready to be or- ganized and others gre expected to follow 5000, On Friday nizht a raception and banquet was tendered High Chief Ranger Cummings at Metz hall on South Thirteenth street. About two hundred of the members of the Omaha and South Omaha lodges sat down to the bountiful feast which had been prepared. Post prandial speeches were made by Chief Cummings, Dr. Charles Rosewater, M. S. Singer and others, L 0. O, ¥ All the loges in the city will hold their reg- ular semi-annual election of officers during the coming week. State lodge No. 10 visited Omaha lodge No. 2 in a body on Friday mwght. The usual courtesies were exchangad and a profitable evening spent. Petitions have been received by Grand Mastor Evans for the formation of Rebekah lodges at Sidney and Gordon, ‘Washington lodge of Arlington has about completed its new temple and the same will be dedicated sometine next month, The old quarters of the lodge were destroyed by fire last winter, but, liko the phenix, the lodge has arisen from the astes in greater splendor than before, State lodge held an interesting impromptu ontertainment after its regular meeting last Monday night. Soveral of the me:n- bers took part and an excellent musical programme of vocal and instrumental num- bors and several recitations was rendered. The affair was greatly enjoyed. B. PO E, William . Bechel of Omaha was honored by being olected to the position of grand treasuror of the order at the session in Louisville last week. Mr. Bechel 1s an enthusiastic Elk, and the honor was well merited. He 1s an active membver of Omaha lodge No. 49, and, has held the highest po- sition within the bift of the lodge, that of exalted ruler. He“takes a lively intorest in all the affairs of the order, and is one of the most energetic af tho members, ‘The ofticers elegtad at the grand lodgo ses- sion are us folloys; K. D. Hay of Washing. ton, grand exaltgd ruler: KFrank E. Wright, Tolado, O., grangd Jeading knight; Peter J. Bush, Detroit, estéomed erand loyal knight; Dr. O. S. Sprague, Rochester, osteemed grand lecturing, kpight; Allen O. Meyers, Ciucinuati, erand secretary; M. J. Bourk, Louisville, grang; teller; William ¥, Bechel, Omaha, grand tygppurer, Naufonal Unic Tho regular mgeking of Omaha council 449, on Tuesday night at Elks' lodge room, was well attended. iEnder “Good of the order” anumber of thé membors engaged in & dis- cussion‘of the merits of fraternal insurance and from the taue and character of the re- marks it Is very evident the members of Omaha council are fully persuaded that a cortiticate of from 81,000 to 5,000 in the Na- tional Unfon is & good thing to have in addi- tion to tho social features of membership in the order. The proposed fraternal mass meeting also came in for a share of the dis- cussion from the fact that the idea of holding it orlginated " with some meambers of this council. High Sec- Examiner Willlam Kil- 0. 8, 0, Clan Gordon No. 63 at its meeting Wednes- day night eleoted George W. Shields as rep- resentative of the clan 1o attend the session of the royal olan which meets in Buffalo, June 14, with Thomas Falconer as alternate. “The clan is in a prosperous condition and receives accessions to its membership at each meotiog. A O U, Omaha lodge No. 18, gave a varty at Wash- ington hall Thursday night. In spite of the bud weather, there was a good attendauce ! and an enjuyable timo was passed. Thoso who did not cara to danco were regaled with cards, high five being tho leading gae. TwW.o. W Alpha camp adopted sixty-three candidates last Thursday night. Tho camp {s in flour- 1shing condition and is increasing in member- ship at a remarkablo rate. A iy Soterian Ginger Ale is sparkling aund delicions, puro and health- ful; it is a mild stimulant an stomachic. e CONNUBIALITIES, Mrs. Mary Coursen of Wilkesbarry, Pa., is a widow for the sixth time. A newly-married Susquehauna, Pa., couple have separated and reunited three times in four weeks, According to the last census there were twenty-six fifteen-year-old married women in Paris, and two of them have since been divorced. An Indianapolis man swore in court the other day that he did not know his wife's first name, though they had lived happily to- gethor for fourteen vears. Wilmot A. Lawrence, & young man, made merchandise of his wife's tiesh in New York, and when arrested claimed that he had a right to do what he pleased with his own. Sioux Falls, 8. D, is the central point for famous divorce applicants, and now has as many as ten or twelvo persons of wealth awaiting an opportunity to make application., Mrs. J. G. Blaine, jr., heads the list. There is a marriage bureau in Berlin which ng the last eleven years has received 19,059 applications for husbands and wives from all civilized countries, while matches have been brought about for 4,309 women ap- plicants and 5,417 men. 1t is easier to obtain a divorce absolutely severing the martial relations even in Eng- land than it is 1 New York, for the legisla- ture there has practically adopted the ser- mon on the mount as the iaw of tho land re- gurding the severance of the marriage tie. William Cooper, a full-blooded Kaw Indian, was married last week in Arkansas City, Kan., by Justice Scott to ILate Schwoyer, a white grl'l from Oklahoma. The groom was sodrunk he could hardly stand, yet the , who is quite good looking, seemed well pleased with her catch. ‘The cashier of a well-known firm of mer- chants in New York eloped with a school teacher at White Plains recently, forsaking his wife and children, It is now announced that he is to come bome and be forgiven, and that the girl he ran away with is most to l.;mmu, as ho tried In vain to get free from or. Mrs, Mary A. IHowland, wifo of tho preacher at the Wayside mission in Provi- dence, K. L., has bogun a suit for divorce, Howland said that when he knelt down w pray his wife shied shoes at him. Mrs, John L Sullivan, he said, was a member of his flock at Centerville, and his wifo was evi- dently jealous of her. Once i his sermon he had used this expression: “I hope to mect you all in heaven,” when his wife scandalized the whole congregation by shricking aloud: “Did your mother tell you to meet Mrs. John L. Sullivan in heaven{’ The remark broke up the service. Annie Stortz told a brutality in Sacramento, Cala., when apply- ing fora divorce from her husband Peter, who has just served a term iu the c for beating her. They had beeu ma years and n beautiful child aged three, is the result of their union. The wife said that two moutns after they were married Stortz cried to force upon her a lifo of shame, telling her it would be an easy life and she would not have to longer work for a living. Stortz bad beaten her nearly every time she Lad asked him for mouey to buy food. The last time he beat her was in February, when she for monoy to buy food for their baby, divorce was granted, A divorco case alloging desertion and non- support, brought by Mrs, Emma N. Tiffany, nee Plerson, against her husband, Beonett F. Tiffany, son of the noted New York jew- oler, washeard in the supreme court at Prov- idence, R. I. Mrs. Tiffany’s story was that her husband left her eleven days atter they were married, when they were living in New | York, and sailed for Europe. Her board had oeen 'paid for a month and she stayed until | the time was up and then went to live with | her mother, She has made her home in Providence, where she intends to live. Sho has pever heard from her husband. He did not leave her a cont and he has not supvorted her since in uny way. Her mother, Mrs. Plerson, & widow, toid the same story, and the decree was ordered file -—— DeWitt's Litue Early Risers; best little horrible story of d A | Providence, R. L, by his wifo Marion. pills for dyspepsia, sour stowmach, bad breath | AMPIETIES, A man’s idea of Heaven is a place where every one is as good as ho iy, In Hamilton, Ont., telephono_transmitters are placed in somaof the churches, and lazy people now bear their sermons at home. Tho strait and narrow way must be very narrow, sinco clorgymen are so constantly treading on each other's corns. A Chicago clergyman preached a_sormon on Ibsen, in the courseof which he said: “There 'are too many cheap tickets to heaven.” It is mean to tell & minister when he has just smoked the good cigar you gave him thut tho cigar was given to you in payment for a bot. “Brudders,” sald the Rov. Poindextor Granberry, * gib yo' alms while yo' has a chance, 50 dat yo'll find a due bill ‘waitin’ fo' o' at ae gate.’ “What did you think of the sermon this morning?” I was very much interested. I never supposed that s simpio a text was so hard to clucidate. Rev. John Swest, of Mount Clemens, Mich., helped his wife clean house last weok, and on Sunday his back was so sore he delivered his sermon sitting down. Many a man who spreads out a dollar bill ontho plate in church for show purposes would not hesitate o *'stick” a poor car coa- ductor on & leaden five cont piece. AtLos Augeles, Cala., Rev. Samuel J. Flem- ing, who was untii recently a Mothodist clergyman, was convicted ona charge of attempting to.commit criminul assault upon a young nurse girl who was formerly in bis employ. Dick Jose, one of tno sweot singers of Thacher’s minstrels’ warbled in the Episcopal church at Reno. Sunday, and even th walk ontside was packed, The Curson Appoal tearfully states that the collections, | however, were only about the same as usual. Rev. James H. Young, the lato chaplain, and Colouel Verbeck, proprietor of a military school in Syricuse made serious charges against each other. The colonel says that the chaplain said grace with his mouth full of mush, ate meat on Good Friday, and wiped the soup from his mustache with his tougue. The chaplain recovered a verdict for $165 for salary due, The Baptist council at Bridgeport, Conn., declined to admit Johu H. Scott to the ministry on the ground thati the candidato was unfit to be ordained a minister, by reason of the fact that ho had obtained a divorce from his wife on other than scriptural ground. The divorce was obtained ahout twenty ycars ago on the ground of desertiun, and ten yoars afterward Scott again married. Theréforo, in tho eyes of the church, so somo of the objectors urge, Mr. Scott was a bigamist, Some French parishoners petitioned for the adpointment of a certain priest, but another was nominated. When the new rector ap- poared he found that thesacristan had suruck Nothing daunted. he determined to ring the beli himself, but when he pulled the rope no sound came, as the clapper had been removed. Amid cries and hootirg ho triod to enter the church, out the door was barricaded, and after carrying on the campaign for a had to own himself beaton, and leave the parish for good. Rev. Alfred Wadams, a colored clergyman, is tne defendant fn n divorce sult brought, in She names two members of his congragation as trespassing on ber rights, one of thom a mar- ried colored woman, aud the othor an unmar- ried white woman, ' The parsou says that all the trouble arose from his objecting to the appearance of his wifo in a concert with bare arms and dresses“too decollete,” the effect of which was disturbing ou his 'congregation, He has been acquitted in a church triai. “The roctor of & country parish in France decided on treating bis tiock to n controversy ou the subject of tho confessional, got gue to assume tho role of **Iho’ Devil's Advocate,” and to hola forth with a series of arguments which, as awatter of corse, ho triumphantly refuted according to a pro- arranged programme. Certain scoffors had been attracted to the church for once and amused themselves with shouting and howl- ing, and marked with red chalk the white drosses of some girls who were 1o joinin & procession. At lust the parishioners could stand their unseemingly interruptions no longer, and after a sharp scuille the rioters were evicted forcibly. The lads, however, forced their way into the church, and lit pipes and cigars and enjoyed themselvss aftor their own fashion - The Paxton Hotel Fire Did not effect the hotel proper in any way 80 a8 to interfere with the operation of the house. Only the annex was dam- aged and guests have been cared for without the interruption of a single day. THEOSOPAY, VIL Flsowhere T have said that the first objeot of the Theosophical society is the universal brotherhood of man. But there are obstaclos to the realization of this scheme of altruism, Spirit, in its struggles with the forces of na. ture, has lost its singleness of percoption in the bewildering allurements of an earth-bory love; and, on turning back to worship at tha source of its spiritual existence, it is blinded by the flashes of bodily passion which play across the mental horizon, and lend so wierd a beauty to its earthly life; while it is smothered in the fumes of desires which riso from the physical body (that workshop of tho divine I3go) and envelope the cloar mir- ror of the soul in ever-changing &nd decop- tive shadows. Thus man has ceased to real- ize the strength of the bonds which bind him to his follows, making the good of one th good of all, and the misery and degradatio; a singlo human being_the special curso%ind active cestroyor of tho human race. Tho soparatoncss of porsoual aims and ambitions—and _ egotism—haye be- como a necessity of modern progress since competition and the survival of the fittest iu the struggle of lifo are held to bo the only means by which advancement in civilization can bo nade. The wisdom ro ligion meets the unreasonablo_contradiction of our age thus shown in the bitter strife of mau against man, under the wgis of a Chris- tianity breathing the smcerest spiriv of brotherly love; with the two grandly philo: sophical doctrines of Karma and reincarna- tion. We say that every religion and cvery sect may, if traced far enough back through ‘the religious history of man- kind, shown to havé common origin_in one world wide religio ) that while the theory of Karma and reincarnation should lead to'a practical _expression of the feeling of universal brotherhood, the com parative study of religious dogmas ‘should by synthesizing thom tend to reconeilo scetarian difficulties. and load to a feeling of fellowship amongst men of every clime and oVery S0Cial ~. . sphere, We say that in the beginning men all held to one belief, and in the “Secret Doctrine,” written by Madame Blavatsky, a mass of ii- teresting information is collected this assertion. Briefly, men lived session of a spiritual knowledge all. This gnosis, becoming vul more complete immersion of (typitied in the biblical sto took on the sacerdotal form a fall), d the physi- n cal necessities of the porsonal m Thon followed of necessity the con fusion of tongues, or _ the split ting up of spiritual knowledge into creeds and dogmas. The strife between spirit and matter (good and evil) had hitherto been con fined to the moulding of the physical envelopo of quasi-ethereal man; but with the more perfect formation of the animal body, through which spirit tries to manifest itself on earth, this internecine strife burst through tho lm= individualized clay, tho spiritual war s of man with families plunged into us wars and disputes recorded in which are alike a disgrace to n and to human love Butwhen it is clearly understood that these are but tho natural result of spirit striving to recognizo itself through the mists which rise from tho feverish activity of earthly life; when, in fuct, a porfectly reasonable and philosophicut conception of tho origin and cause of this multiplicity of creeds - this splitting up of divine knowledge-—-has been acquired, then it is natural to hobe that the brotherhood of 1aan WAy 02680 to bea dream and becomo practically effective, unhindered—as it must then be—by flufr requirements of the denial or acceptance of particular beliofs; ench re- ligion being recoguized as just, if partial, re- flectiou of the one great universal truth, necessary to give expression to the particular mental characteristics of those peonlos or a- tions amongst whom it may have grown up. 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